Barbara Morgenroth > Quotes

“People shouldn't second guess God. If everything happened for a reason, it was usually too difficult to figure out what that reason was. Better to just accept things as they were, deal with them and enjoy the weather when it came, stay inside when it rained.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Bad Apple

“If you bring forth what's inside you, what's inside you will strengthen you. If you don't bring forth what's inside you, what's inside you will destroy you.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Bad Apple

“Even when change is welcome, adapting to it doesn't always come easily”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Bad Apple

“Someone said you can't trust happiness.' 'Who was that idiot?' I shrugged. 'Let yourself be happy, Neal.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Bad Apple

“The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn't put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Bad Apple

“No one has a perfect life but I didn’t want to say that to her. “I think we use horses to repair our own lives. If we can make their lives trouble-free then it doesn’t matter so much if ours are a mess.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Partial Stranger

“If you want to sing, sing. If you want to ride, ride. If you want to cook, cook. That’s your path. Where it leads you is a mystery, but you follow that path. You can’t force it. Life doesn’t like being coerced.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Kyff

“There are a lot of reasons horses don’t do what we’d like them to do. They have their own opinions and agenda. Like CB with his swish. They’re our partners not our subjects.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Kyff

“I chase him around with a bottle of water and an orange all day long.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Calling All Comets

“Greer overreacts to almost everything—” “I do not,” Greer replied entering into the kitchen. “I react appropriately. Everyone else is underreacting.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Roll the Dice

“Horses are honest. They don’t hide their feelings. If they want to kick you, they kick you. People will wait for the most opportune moment, and then they kick you.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Kyff

“The events we suffer through act like a polishing cloth or a chisel. It’s your choice of which one, but it’s one or the other.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Partial Stranger

“Time apart is a reminder to value the time together.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Partial Stranger

“Life was going along smoothly, and then in a moment everything changed. It happened to me with my mother. It happened to Lockie at the Three Day. You do everything you can to right the ship of your life again, but it always lists a little.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Partial Stranger

“I didn’t do drugs when I was pregnant; you’re the way you are on your own.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Flash

“He doesn’t need to be fixed,” Lockie said. “You can’t look at it that way. It’s a process of discovery, of letting Kyffhäuser develop into the athlete he wants to be and can be. It’s nothing that can be rushed. He got to this point because he was pushed every step of the way. That training has to be undone for him before he can make progress.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Kyff

“was promising to be a white-out Christmas with all the overheated warnings from the television news about “sheltering in place” and whatever other nonsense phrases they were using to convey to the public that it was going to snow quite a bit overnight.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Calling All Comets

“Galanoactin if he still can’t keep anything down. He had some”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Tea Biscuit

“I looked up at the screen and Lockie was the sixth from the last. Jennifer Nicholson was after him riding one of Teche’s horses, Roux.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Kyff

“New laws, new restrictions, new regulations, were put in place regularly. The purpose was always to crush, to destroy, not to aid. They were being bled white all in the guise of the greater good.”
― Barbara Morgenroth, Bled White